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Page last updated at 17:43 GMT, Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Was Winter Hill a great protector?

A look at the original name for the region's highest peak reveals that Winter Hill might well have once been seen as a seasonal guardian.

Manchester on TV: Ghosts of Winter Hill

John Dee: Manchester's first scientist

Long before Manchester became famous for science, one of England's most infamous early scientists made his home here.

In pictures: Stockport Plaza

As a decade of work on Stockport Plaza restores it to its former glories, take a look at the history of the 1930s theatre.

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The rise and fall of King Street

Diary reveals Great Escape plot

Stretford's pioneering aviator

Adela: from left to right

Ewan MacColl: theatre legend

Uttley's radical youth revealed

How America changed the North

Manchester's best kept secret

Darwin whale's tooth in wardrobe

Dale's musical heritage

Postcards were Edwardian 'texts'

Digging up Manchester's 'Hell'

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John Rylands University Library

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Chetham's Library

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